Zorro Platform: Analyze
- Develop - Test - Trade

Since the 1990s, private traders can use the Internet to access the financial markets. Several trade platforms offer automated trading functions. But they are,
in fact, mainly designed for manual trading and not well suited for algorithmic strategies (see trading platform comparison). Consequently, private traders are not
very successful with automated trading. Those who are
normally don't use trading platforms, but self-written software.

Zorro is a free tool for executing financial algorithms. It
supports research, exploring, developing, testing, and executing
strategies for stocks, forex, options, futures, bonds, ETFs, CFDs,
or any other financial instruments. The focus is on advanced
statistical or machine learning algorithms. Zorro runs either as a
stand-alone system with direct connection to a broker or exchange,
or as an attachment to a trading platform, such as MTR4/MTR5 or TWS by Interactive Brokers™.

Converting a trade idea into an automated trade system, testing and trading it is a lot easier and faster with Zorro than with conventional platforms. Here's a tiny video course about developing a simple daily trade system:

Zorro News

Zorro version 1.96 was released and is available on the
Download page. This version
comes with an interactive chart viewer/debugger, an options trading workshop,
Visual Studio™ support, a function to record options chains, and many other new features and
improvements. Details on the What's New page.

A comparison table of Zorro vs. TradeStation™ vs. MTrader™ can be found on the FAQ page.